Coin-holder



1,626,36 Apnl 26 1927. T. J. SUGHRUA 6 COIN HOLDER Filed March 25. 1922 five/eff." T 720272451X j zgfiracz Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

I UNITED STATES THOMAS J. SUGHRUA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COIN-HOLDER.

Application filed March 25, 1922.

erated by placing a coin or similar member therein prior to calling the operator, and it is a purpose of the invention to provide a coin holder which will be so located and so constructed that the same will conveniently and quickly dispense coins or tokens at the telephone. The device is preferably so constructed that the samerwill be hung from the mouth piece of the telephone without interfering with or in any way hindering the operation of the instrument. and so that the same may swing relative thereto.

It is a further purpose of the invention to construct a coin holder of the above mentioned character in such a manner that the same can be cheaply made and will be of a simple and efiicient construction.

It is also a purpose of the invention to provide a sheet metal blank from which coin holders of the above mentioned character 5 can be readily formed of one piece of material.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear as the description of the accompanying drawings proceeds. However, I desire to have it distinctly understood that I do not intend to limit myself to the exact details shown or described, but that I intend to include as part of my invention all such obvious changes and modifications of parts as would occur to a person skilled in this art and as would fall within the scope of the claims.

- In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of a portion of a telephone instrument showing-the mouth piece thereof with one of my improved coin holders applied thereto, said coin holder being shown partly in section;

Fig. 2 is a face view of the coin holder;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof; and

Fi 4 is a plan view of the blank from whic the coin holder is made.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the telephone instrument 5 is shown as being provided with a transmitter 6 having a mouth iece 7 from which the coin holder comprismg m invention is suspended. The mouth piece is detachable as is well known, and the casing of the transmitter 6 is provided with a projection at 9 at the mouth iece. The coin holder comprises abody portion 10 Serial No. 546,928.

provided with an opening 11 therein form ing an enlarged perforated car through the opening 11 of which the small end of the mouth piece 7 is adapted to be passed. As

the body portion 10 is made of sheet metal that is comparatively thin, the same will occupy but a small amount of space. The opening 11 is of such size that the member 7 will pass through the same and the body portion 10 will engage with the outer surface of the mouth piece 7 with suflicicnt looscncss to permit turning of the coin holder onthe same. Depending from the body portion 10 is a substantially cylindrical coin holder portion 12 which is provided with a vertically extending slot-13, which extends from the top to the bottom thereof, and which is also provided with an inwardly extending flange or lip portion 14 at the bottom thereof which is curved as shown in Fig. 3, and which acts as a support for the lowermost coin or token 15 It will be noted that the lip 14 is positioned slightly below the lower edge 16 of the front portion of the cylinder or tube 12 thus leaving a transverse slot or opening 17 through which the coins may be removed by passing the fingers through the opening provided at 18 in the bottom of the coin holder. The top of the cylinder is, of course, open and the coins are inserted at the top thereof. The coin holder is very simple in construction and can be very simply made, as will be evident from the blank shown in Fig. 4, in which the rectangular body portion 12 forms the cylindrical coin holding member 12 and the lip or extension 14' forms the flange or lip 14 and the elongated portion 10, extending from the rectangular body portion 12' at the side thereof opposite the lip 14, forms the body portion 10, said ex tension 10 being provided with an opening 11 and having a curved end portion 19' forming the curved upper end 19 of the perforated ear formed by the member 10.

It will be seen that all that is necessary to form the coin holder, after the blank shown in Fig. 4 is punched out, is to form the portion 12 into cylindrical shape to form the coin holding portion 12 and to bend over the lip 14' so as to form the flange or ledge 14, a portion of the projection 14 forming the longer portion of the cylindrical wall, and the remainder of the extension 14' forming the ledge or flange 14, as will be evident from Figs. 2 and 3.

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It will be noted that as the body portion 10 will turn on the mouth piece 7, the weight of the coin holding tube when either full or empty will cause the holder to assume a vertical position, no matter what the position of the telephone may be, thus preventing spilling of the coins out of the tube. It will also be noted that the length of the device is such as not to interfere with the turning, of the transmitter to any desired angular position.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by U. S. Letters Patent is:

1. In a coin holder, a circular body portion having a circular opening concentric therewith. an elongated tapering tab depending therefrom and a tubular coin holding portion axially aligned with said tab,

and said opening, said coin holdin Y portion having an open end adjacent sai tab and having a coin su portin flange at the opposii'c end thereo said tu ular portion being narrower than said circular body portion.

2. In a coin holder, at body portion having a relatively large opening therein, an elongated tab depending therefrom and a tubular coin holding portion aligned with said tab and supported thereby, said coin holding portion having an openend adjacent said tab and opening, and having a coin supporting flange at the opposite end thereof, said tubular ortion being narrower than said body portlon.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this th day 1922.

THOMAS J. SUGHRUA.

of March A. D., 

